Page 104 of His Secret Gift

“You were the one who told her?”

Callie puts her hand on my knee—as if in warning to watch myself.

“Yeah. So? She wanted Jack back, so I told her where he’d be.”

My teeth are gritting together.

“It’s not like it worked. He’s so stupid. Like he could ever do better than Harper.”

Callie’s grip intensifies.

“She cheated on him, Gwen. Some things are hard or even impossible to move past.”

She shrugs. “I guess.” Then, she gestures at Jenkins who looks almost as worse for wear as Jack but is no longer sitting by him like he did on the way to Marrakesh. Instead, he’s sitting with a young guy named Tyler and two others I don’t know very well.

Just before the train takes off, Gwen gets a notification on her phone, and when she opens it, her eyes grow wide, and her jaw drops. “Oh, my god.”

She shows Callie first, and she shoots a sympathetic look my way. “Kayla—”

“What is it?”

When the screen is turned my way, I see graphic footage of Jack… and Harper.

“This is old right?”

Callie shakes her head. “No.”

I look closer and see that everything transpired in his room at Izza.

No. Why?My eyes are darting as I try to process what I just saw.

Gwen, not knowing about my involvement with him, cheers Harper on. “Thatta girl! She knew what she wanted, and she went after it. Good for her.”

I feel red laser beams shooting out of my eyes, but my heart also feels broken.

Why?I can’t wrap my head around it. Why would he spend all that time with me if he wanted to be with her the whole time.

“I’m so sorry,” Callie whispers, so only I can hear it.

I swallow some tears. “It’s fine.”

She rubs my shoulder. “No, it isn’t.”

What is this? Karma for everything I thought about her situation with Dirk and Denver’s whole thing with Maria?

After that, I just stare at the back of his head and try to come up with any reasonable excuse for his behavior, failing every single time.

Then, as if my worst nightmares weren’t already coming true, I start to hear more and more peoples’ phones going off and then them scoff and whisper.

“That’s Jack and Harper,” someone behind us comments. “I guess they did get back together.”

I want to cry even more, so I just take a blanket and wrap it around my head.

Callie tries to console me by occasionally rubbing my arm. I appreciate her efforts, but part of me also wishes she never knew about my brief fling with Jack. It made all this worse because I felt embarrassed and hate almost more than anything to be pitied.

Chapter 32

Unknown Loyalties – Kayla

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